In a time when mindfulness is marketed through apps and achieving inner peace is a planned task, traditional practices such as chanting stotras are subtly yet strongly reemerging. Stotras: hymns of ...

GOSEN, Niigata Prefecture--Togen Yoshihara sings pensively while he plays the guitar on the grounds of a temple here, not for a concert but as a religious rite. After a video of him chanting ...